Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark
Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark OM CH KCB FBAwas a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians and aesthetes of his generation, writing a series of books that appealed to a wide public, while remaining a serious scholar. In 1969, he achieved international fame as the writer, producer and presenter of the BBC Television series Civilisation, which pioneered television documentary series combining expert personalized narration with lavish photography on location...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 July 1903
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!
To say that our troops are simply doing security patrols tells only half the story. They are helping residents recover belongings and they are reporting their concerns and needs to the appropriate authorities.
Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.
The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression of all the passions, the animal forces, the Caliban gruntings and groanings which are left in human nature when the divine has been poured away. Leonardo was less concerned than his Gothic predecessors with the ethereal parts of our nature, and so his caricatures, in their expression of passionate energy, merge imperceptibly into the heroic.
Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!
The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
All color is no color.
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.